2013 Annual Report
Annual Report of the Trustees for 2013
Sandy Starkey stepped down as a trustee this year, after serving for more than twenty years. We miss her and appreciate her many years of service.
Marty Bender and Nancy Webster donated an Orion StarBlast 4.5 Astronomical Telescope that was purchased from and assembled by the New Hampshire Astronomical Society as part of its Library Telescope Program.
The Library’s Book Group finished out its 17th year with more than 163 books under its collective belt. Our Summer Reading Program, “Dig into Reading,” concluded with an “Animal Excavators” program put on by the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. New this year was a summer 5th-8th Grade book group, “Beneath the Surface.” Thank You to Corisa Corrow for taking charge of this.
We continued our museum passes program for a second year, adding memberships to The Fells, Strawbery Banke, and NH Telephone Museum to the memberships we renewed to the SEE Science Center, Currier Museum of Art, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, and NH Historical Society and Museum of NH History.
We appreciate the generous donations from Judy O’Donnell and Phil and Marylou Desmarais, which enabled us to provide our users with extras such as the museum passes. We also thank everyone who donated their used materials to the library this year, who dropped some coins into our donation can, or who donated their time to keep the library open Wednesday evenings, and to entertain our children at our Summer Reading Program storytimes.
31 people signed up for library cards this year, bringing the total number of registered users to 717. We had 2443 visitors to the library, including the 178 who came in to use our internet. We added 556 books, DVDs and audiobooks to our collection and removed 337, leaving us with 11,533. 6173 materials were checked out, and our members downloaded 593 ebooks and 710 audiobooks from the New Hampshire Downloadable Books site. We borrowed 202 materials from other New Hampshire libraries, and, in turn, loaned out 404. Our most checked out book in 2013 was The Storyteller, by Jodi Picoult, and our most popular DVD was Life of Pi.
Respectfully submitted,
Sandy Starkey, Chair
Sue Barnes, Secretary
Marty Bender, Treasurer